known as DDT, is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, an organochloride. Originally developed as an insecticide, it became...

environmental effects (e.g. DDT, chlordane, and toxaphene). Organophosphates are another large class of contact insecticides. These also target the insect's...

Look up DDT in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. DDT, or dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, is an insecticide. DDT may also refer to: Deflagration to detonation...

Organochlorine pesticides, a family of organochlorine compounds to which the DDT insecticide belongs Ocean Park station, an MTR station in Hong Kong Ochre Coloured...

This is a list of insecticides. These are chemical compounds which have been registered as insecticides. The names on the list are the ISO common name...

prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the control of vector diseases such as malaria and yellow...

toxic of these are still in use in organic farming. In the 1940s the insecticide DDT, and the herbicide 2,4-D, were introduced. These synthetic organic...

being DDT. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends IRS as one of three primary means of malaria control, the others being use of insecticide treated...

was distributed on paper tape. The name is a pun on the insecticide DDT. The first version of DDT was developed at MIT for the PDP-1 computer in 1961, but...

Flit! (Kill the old lady ... with Flit!)—FLIT being an old brand of DDT insecticide. This is a humorous popular version of a post-World War II commercial...

person who wrote to Rachel Carson alerting her to the harms of the insecticide DDT inspiring the book Silent Spring. Huckins was born Olga Van Slyke Owens...

start production of DDT for the National Malaria Eradication Programme. Since then its product range has expanded to include Insecticides, Herbicides, Weedecides...

The use of DDT in New Zealand was banned in 1989 due to negative environmental impacts. DDT is an organochlorine insecticide that does not occur naturally...

of organic insecticides, such as DDT, gave hope that insecticide resistance was a dead issue. However, by 1947 housefly resistance to DDT had evolved...

increased awareness of the environmental hazards associated with the insecticide DDT used for some of these programs, this practice became less common....

(sometimes shortened to neonics /ˈniːoʊnɪks/) are a class of neuro-active insecticides chemically similar to nicotine, developed by scientists at Shell and...

unharmed by the insecticide DDT. In 1979 and 1980, males of the species were observed deliberately collecting large quantities of the insecticide from remote...

that of the insecticide DDT, except that two of DDT's chlorine atoms are replaced by two fluorine atoms. DFDT was developed as an insecticide by German...

12 insecticides in IRS operations, including DDT and the pyrethroids cyfluthrin and deltamethrin. This public health use of small amounts of DDT is permitted...

eradication campaigns, started in Réunion in 1949 thanks to the new DDT insecticide, led to a dramatic decrease of malaria prevalence in the space of four...

Imidacloprid is a systemic insecticide belonging to a class of chemicals called the neonicotinoids which act on the central nervous system of insects...

Carson never called for an outright ban on DDT. She said in Silent Spring that even if DDT and other insecticides had no environmental side effects, their...

pyrethroid ester insecticide. Deltamethrin plays a key role in controlling malaria vectors, and is used in the manufacture of long-lasting insecticidal mosquito...

Dicofol is an insecticide, an organochlorine that is chemically related to DDT. Dicofol is a miticide that is very effective against spider mite. Its production...

populations due to insecticide use may have aided bed bugs' resurgence, since cockroaches eat bedbugs. Increasing resistance to DDT and other potent pesticides...

Originally developed in the 1940s as an alternative to DDT, dieldrin proved to be a highly effective insecticide and was very widely used during the 1950s to early...

(DDT) is probably the most infamous POP. It was widely used as insecticide during WWII to protect against malaria and typhus. After the war, DDT was...

and C. coccineum). Pyrethroids are used as commercial and household insecticides. In household concentrations pyrethroids are generally harmless to humans...

and can produce male genital tract abnormalities. Insecticide ATSDR – Public Health Statement: DDT, DDE, and DDD Walker, K. C.; Goette, M. B.; Batchelor...

(DDT) is an organochlorine insecticide that has been banned due to its adverse effects on both humans and wildlife. DDT's insecticidal properties...